BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN AID BUT NOTHING IN RETURN FROM AFGHANISTAN -- BY BRONWEN MADDOX, TimesOnline.co.uk

For $48 billion you would think you could buy the right to pick the Afghan Interior Minister. Or the Governor of Helmand province. Or, come to that, the President’s pledge that he would fight a clean election. One mystery in America’s struggles in Afghanistan is the failure to put real pressure on Hamid Karzai to act in a way that might command popular respect and give the coalition strategy a chance of success.

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